Day 95 - At Sea, Muscat, Medivac

Day 95 – Tuesday 15^th April 2014 – At Sea, Muscat, Medivac

With a calm sea on another hot day, the ship is doing 22 knots as we close the Arabian Coast.

The lunch time theatre lecture was given by our Royal Navy representative, Richard Eedle on the role of the Navy today.  It was accompanied with small videos and slides, a lot of which was more of a recruitment drive; though he knew there was no chance with the majority of the guests on board, who are above the acceptable age.  Unfortunately, the lecture was a bit of a flop, due to the equipment regularly breaking down and the speaker not doing a very job reading his script, and he is the Liaison Officer.

Muscat

Around 17.00 with a lot of people on deck through the heat haze the rugged mountains of Oman came into view.

'Penquin' medical boat

   

Medivac

The shore side medical boat came alongside our embarkation platform and transferred the stretcher with the ulcer patient, while the next with the suspected appendicitis managed to walk on board.  A member of the ship’s medical team went with them and it is always a little sad when people have to leave a ship with a medical condition.  The ship waited off the port until the medical staff member returned, and we were on our way again, wishing those who had been landed, a speedy recovery.

After dinner I went up onto the open deck 9, where there was a party going on with our resident Caribbean band belting it out.  You have to remember all the cabin stewards have been informed to make sure all of the guest stateroom (cabin) curtains have been closed at 18.00.  Here we are in so called pirate waters, with the aft deck lights full on, and the band making enough noise to waken the dead, needless to say, I wandered off shaking my head.

Ending up in the Yacht Club on Deck 10, while in Singapore a party of Chileans had come on board, and they had taken over the Yacht Club.  Obviously, they had also brought their own DJ, as the sambas and rumbas just kept on coming. 

Too much excitement for me; time for bed.